Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti was buried with the sole manuscript of poems by her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti; seven years later he wanted to publish them and had her exhumed (the exhumers told him her body was "uncorrupted").

One gains the impression, rightly or wrongly, that Dr. Rossman believes that a perfect, "uncorrupted" text of Ulysses, somehow free of critical judgements, upon which the entire body of Joycean scholars would agree, is a possibility.